This is The Origin of Creatures, a bizarre 10-minute film by Floris Kaayk about a post-apocalyptic future where human beings have devolved into swarms of appendages. Here's the synopsis and making-of this charmingly twisted short flick:

In case you were psychically scarred by the now famous stingray photobomb, here's some pareidolia to soothe your mind. And now, a baby stingray from the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport Oregon set to music. Enjoy. [Via Arbroath]

Every now and again, comic book writers try to infuse superheroes' foibles with societal relevance or their own personal political beliefs. But in fictional worlds where Galactus the World Devourer tries to eat the biosphere every two weeks, these attempts can get downright baffling.

What debuts are in comic shops tomorrow? First off, there's the funny book adaptation of Bravest Warriors, the new cartoon from Pendleton Ward of Adventure Time. ("Join Chris, Wallow, Beth, and Danny, four 16-year-old heroes-for-hire, as they warp from galaxy to galaxy, saving alien races with the power of their…

Here's a new relic for all you amateur Indiana Joneses to instigate Nepalese bar brawls over. Explains the University of California of this odd 1440 tableau, it's "from the Book of Hours of Catherine of Clèves, containing the prayers and litanies of the Mass in Latin, decorated with 157 lavishly colored and gilded…

The monsters of Halloween just seem so rote this year. I mean, you can only go through so many All Hallows' Eves with Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolfman phoning in the frights on October 31, glad-handing with trick-or-treaters, drunk off of Universal Studios ducats and stoned out of their gourds on the Mummy's…

Is it just us, or is the internet stepping up their Halloween game hard this year? Look no further than this 6'4" jack o' lantern by Tigrus (construction process here). Eleven pumpkins sacrificed their existences as decorative squashes to transform into your ever-lovin' blue-eyed pal from Yancy Street. And who knew…

Courtesy of IDW Publishing, here's an exclusive first look at Let's Play God, a horror book that goes by the tagline "Siouxsie and the Banshees meets Halloween." This issue hits stores this Wednesday, October 24. Here's the rundown:

How does a guy known for writing Punisher and Wolverine tackle the highfalutin fantasy of Asgard? If you're comic scribe Jason Aaron, you bring in berserkers, beer, beards, and a mystical serial killer who targets gods.

This is Drained, a wordless, 10-minute film with a simple synopsis — "the story of how a man's addictions can destroy the woman he loves" — but intensely unnerving stop-motion animation using household items.

Cheese and crackers, Walking Dead, do you know how to kick off a season. Tonight's installment of T-Dog Mystery Theater (presented by Shop Rite's Can Can Sale) — "Sick" — introduced us to some new friends and saw alpha male Rick Grimes deal with some hilariously ineffectual maximum security peacocking. We're finally…

Back in the day, the medical analysis of urine relied on, well, a doctor's five senses and superstition. But sometimes physicians needed a little extra help in divining the ramifications of some dubious tinkle.

This Halloween, do you harbor the sociopathic desire to convey to everyone you know and appreciate — once and for all — that you truly are a walking nightmare? If so, why not make an unnerving 3D mask of your own face?

This here's Making Empire, a documentary that aired in 1980 to promote The Empire Strikes Back and was promptly consigned to the pop cultural dustbin. Which is an absolute pity, as this Dutch television special — the first 45 seconds of the YouTube video above are in Dutch, the rest is in English — features some…